Gao Xiangdong is in his early sixties, but on the surface, he is at most fifty years old, he is very good, he is tall, his hair should have been slightly gray, dyed black and powerful, with a pair of glasses, a friendly smile, and a loud voice, he shook hands with Lin Xiaocao in the God of War Palace, which made people feel good as soon as they met.

This is a man who seems to maintain the image of the leader of the party and the empire at all times, his performance is not strong, but his every move is extremely dazzling, his demeanor is detached and confident, in the era when the southern faction has declined, he can squeeze into the decision-making bureau and take charge of the household department, an important department of the country's money, this God of Wealth is undoubtedly both image and ability.

Lin Xiaocao is not disgusted with this kind of person who always pays attention to his image, but admires it very much, he is in a high position, and if he is not even willing to take care of his own image, then how can he expect the other party to benefit the empire in the future?

After Gao Xiangdong sat down, the first sentence made amends to Lin Xiaocao, Liu Yuncheng is the deputy minister of the household department, and he is the executive deputy director, presiding over the daily work of the household department, a veritable second-in-command, a very top-notch figure at the governor level, Gao Xiangdong is serving as a member of the Imperial Decision-making Bureau, and the head of the household department is also an academician of the Central Academician Bureau, so he gave Liu Yuncheng a chance to vacate him when dealing with the work of the Academician Bureau.

Gao Xiangdong is also a really good means, quietly contend with Liu Yuncheng, his status has been as stable as Mount Tai, and in the case of a stalemate, the contradiction between the first and second leaders of the household department has gradually become public from the original secret war, and now there is a vague sense of incompatibility, fortunately, now that the election is approaching, and Gao Xiangdong is the popular candidate recommended by the southern faction for the next term, so the two have been very tacitly suppressing the contradiction.

On other occasions, Liu Yuncheng, as a deputy, will definitely not mind attending an event with the number one, but in the face of the God of War King, he will not follow Gao Xiangdong as a subordinate anyway, no matter whether Gao Xiangdong can go up or not after the change, he will definitely not continue to stay in the household department, this is his Liu Yuncheng's opportunity, he wants to take over the throne, he must be inseparable from the support of the God of War King, and now he does not sit with Gao Xiangdong, but also to Lin Xiaocao vaguely expressing his determination and attitude, and at the same time showing his own influence in the household department。

In the past few years in the household department, although Liu Yuncheng has not overwhelmed the overhead Gao Xiangdong, but the momentum is not weaker than Gao Xiangdong's number one, in addition to Gao Xiangdong's heavy work and Liu Yuncheng's excellent ability, the game between the big factions is also affecting the form of the household department.

Now the southern faction has only one Standing Committee giant in the decision-making bureau, that is, the current Imperial Prime Minister Yang Xiuyuan, and Gao Xiangdong, as the Minister of Households, is a hardcore supporter of Prime Minister Yang Xiuyuan, but because the prestige of the former Prime Minister Li Donglei in the empire is too high, even if he retires for nearly ten years, now a word can still affect the situation of the cabinet and even the empire, which makes Yang Xiuyuan, who is now in charge of the cabinet, extremely huge, and not only that, there is Li Donglei in the past, and there is Deputy Prime Minister Chen Hualou in the back, Yang Xiuyuan has been constrained everywhere in recent years, and he still does not fully control the cabinet, but Chen Hualou is the general trend, speaking is even more effective than Yang Xiuyuan.

In this case, Gao Xiangdong did not use too drastic means against Liu Yuncheng, a cadre of the royal family, because Liu Yuncheng has continued to grow bigger in the past few years, and has even released a signal to take charge of the household department.

However, although Liu Yuncheng did this, Gao Xiangdong still had to find an excuse for him in the face of the God of War King, many things are like this, what is going on, everyone knows it in their hearts, but whether you say it or not, it is another matter.

"Yun Cheng thinks too much, he is a person, I don't have much contact, but he understands it, has strong work ability and a strong sense of responsibility, but he is too impatient and not stable enough in some things, this is not good, it is not good. ”

Lin Xiaocao stretched out his hand and rubbed the hair on his head, sat on the sofa and handed Gao Xiangdong a cigarette, waved his hand at Chen Qingyu on the side, and said with a smile: "Let's serve, Minister Gao has all the opportunities, and the household department will coordinate the empire's finances, there are so many things, let's not delay him too much." ”

Gao Xiangdong smiled silently, his expression calm, but the hand that had just taken the cigarette trembled slightly.

The words of the young prince on the other side are worth pondering.

Strong work ability and strong sense of responsibility, this is naturally an affirmation of Liu Yuncheng, and the impatience he uses is quite intriguing.

After thinking about it carefully, no matter how you listen to it, it has a kind of meaning of letting Liu Yuncheng delegate power to support his work.

Gao Xiangdong has a hundred reasons to believe that it is definitely not Lin Xuanyuan casually, a person of his status, and in the face of the leader of another big faction like himself, his every word will definitely be carefully considered, and the other party's straight to the point just now seems to be a statement?

"Lord Wang, I have worked with Yun Cheng in the past few years, and my understanding of him is very profound, this comrade is very principled, although he is a little anxious to do something, but it is also because of work, in general, I am very happy to work with him. ”

Gao Xiangdong smiled, he was extremely cautious in everything he said, and before he figured out the other party's attitude, don't easily reveal his attitude, which is the most basic principle of doing things.

On the other side, this young man who didn't even finish college at his age under normal circumstances is now a real leader of the royal family, and Gao Xiangdong has no reason not to take it seriously.

"We don't talk about him. ”

Lin Xiaocao smiled, watched Chen Qingyu personally bring up plates of dishes, and said, "Knowing that Minister Gao likes to eat Sichuan food, I asked the kitchen to step up and make it, taste it, and see if the taste is authentic." ”

"Who doesn't know that the chefs of the God of War Mansion are the best in the industry? ”

Gao Xiangdong smiled heartily, and his voice was very affinity and infectious.

Lin Xiaocao smiled and lifted the porcelain plate on the exquisite dinner plate, although the dishes on the table are many and rich, but in fact they are not precious, they are all some representative works of Sichuan cuisine, dry roasted osmanthus fish, husband and wife lung slices, fish-flavored shredded pork, etc., Lin Xiaocao is a standard carnivore, and the first thing to pay attention to any food is energy consumption and maintaining physical strength, so on his dining table, it is rare to see easy-to-digest vegetables, but Huang Xiangdong seems to be a like-minded person with him, sitting opposite Lin Xiaocao and eating with relish.

Lin Xiaocao chatted with him with a match, thinking about how to open the topic.

Wine over three glasses.

Fifty-year-old Guojiao Moutai, using the small cup that comes with the wine, said that it is three glasses, but in fact there are no two taels, Lin Xiaocao was just about to get up and fulfill the host's obligation to pour wine for the guests, Gao Xiangdong had already covered the wine glass with a smile, and laughed softly: "I can't drink anymore, during work hours, I must not drink more than two taels, otherwise how can I do work if I am confused?" This is the dead rule set by Prime Minister Yang when he was in charge of the local government, at that time, there were many cadres who were beaten into the cold palace under such rules, and I also developed a habit at that time, I am afraid that I will not be able to accompany the prince to enjoy it today, if the prince thinks that I still have the interest to drink, I will come back to eat another day, okay?"

"Of course. ”

Lin Xiaocao put down the wine bottle with a smile: "I welcome Minister Gao here at any time, I'm afraid that you don't have time and don't want to come over." ”

Gao Xiangdong laughed, from the bottom of his heart, he still has a good impression of Lin Xiaocao, this young man who can no longer be described as young and promising, everything he did after coming to Kyushu City seemed to give the southern faction a lot of benefits in the end, although the Wang faction got more during this period, but this did not affect the southern faction's good impression of Lin Xiaocao at all, especially recently, the southwest faction was in a hurry, the southern faction attacked frequently, and some elders within the faction have begun to plan to re-arrange, intending to have more than previous gains at this year's plenary meeting。

If Lin Xiaocao continued to act like this, he might end up being regarded as a lucky star by the southern faction.

"Prime Minister Yang has not been easy all these years. ”

Lin Xiaocao took a bite of food, looked at Gao Xiangdong with a hearty smile, and said softly: "Actually, I carefully studied Prime Minister Yang's resume before coming to the empire, and I have always admired him as an old man. ”

From Minister Gao to Lao Gao, the simple title changes, but it undoubtedly reveals a sense of intimacy.

Gao Xiangdong nodded solemnly, and said softly: "For the country and the people, with a clear conscience, this is a sentence that the prime minister often says, he told me that he didn't get much applause from the people when he came to power, but he hoped that when he stepped down, the people of the empire would say a word when chatting: This old guy who has been sitting in the position of prime minister for ten years is actually doing well." ”

Lin Xiaocao's expression was calm, and he nodded: "The Prime Minister's mind is indeed worthy of admiration, from my personal opinion, I hope that such a good Prime Minister can better serve the people, Lao Gao, I am not a high-ranking official, so I don't pay so much attention to speaking, I just think that it is very difficult for Prime Minister Yang now, it is not easy." ”

"Oh?"

Gao Xiangdong's eyes narrowed subconsciously, and the smile that appeared on his face again was a little less hearty, and three points more unfathomable: "I don't know what the prince means?"

The main topic is finally coming.

"Come, replace the wine with juice and toast the Prime Minister. ”

Lin Xiaocao smiled and raised his glass next to him.

“”

Gao Xiangdong, whose spirit had been completely tightened, almost scolded, and after forcibly holding it back, his face was still unnatural for a while, this pass was sold at such a good time, and it happened to catch their weakness.

For nearly ten years, Prime Minister Yang's work can be described as constrained everywhere, when he first entered the cabinet, it can almost be said that it was difficult to move an inch, only to open the situation, and squeeze into a Chen painting building, no one understands better than him what the old leader who is now in the second position of the empire wants to do, so he doesn't care about what to pretend, he drank the drink in the cup, and said solemnly: "Lord, what you just said, I don't understand." ”

"There's nothing hard to understand, it's simple, personally, I hope the prime minister can have a better working environment in his final term. ”

Lin Xiaocao laughed softly.

What kind of personal opinion did he say, Gao Xiangdong automatically thought that the other party was farting, but the last sentence made his eyes glaze over.

A better working environment?

If Chen Hualou leaves the cabinet, the prime minister's working environment will undoubtedly be greatly improved.

Does Mr. Chen want to retire?

How is this possible?

This year, she is only in her early fifties, the woman who has defeated the years and stood at the pinnacle of politics, the ageless face that often appears on news broadcasts, almost the whole world is peerless.

How could she possibly retreat?

"Party committees can lead the government, but they can't interfere. It's a matter of route, if you go wrong, you can't turn back. ”

Lin Xiaocao said quietly, but a simple sentence, listening to Gao Xiangdong's ears, was like thunder!

Almost all people in the political superstructure of the empire have heard of this phrase.

The first time this phrase was coined was more than a decade ago.

It is rumored that it was the words of former Prime Minister Li Donglei to the head of state Xue Zhiguo, who had only served in the position of supreme head of state for one term at that time.

At the plenary session the next day, Xue Zhiguo resigned from his post in the party, and at the National Assembly in March of the following year, he resigned from all his posts and retired completely.

Since then, the empire has implemented a real separation of party and government, and in just five years, under the old man's drastic reforms, one decision after another has been issued in the cabinet, which finally changed the territory of tens of millions of square kilometers, and made the empire leap from a developing country to a developed country in the world.

Of course, the cabinet at that time was not called the cabinet, but the State Council.

Lin Xiaocao now mentioned that era, and made it clear that he wanted to provide a more relaxed environment for Prime Minister Yang

Gao Xiangdong thought about it, and his expression gradually changed.

Not annoyance, not surprise, but an extremely uneasy hesitation and thought, an expression he wanted to hide, but it still showed on his face.

Lin Xiaocao glanced at him, waved his hand at Chen Qingyu who was standing at the door with a smile, and said, "Go and get the document from my study, it's on the table." ”

He glanced at Gao Xiangdong and said with a smile: "Some of the things I have sorted out recently, you can take them back and take a look." ”

Chen Qingyu took a deep look at the two people eating at the dinner table, turned upstairs, walked into the study, and picked up the document.

She knew that this document had originally been circulated from the Hidden Dragon Sea, and it was even very likely that it had been circulated from her aunt's office.

And this document, Lin Xiaocao has been reading it for more than a week since he brought it back.

Much of his restlessness and restlessness stemmed from this document.

Chen Qingyu didn't look at it, closed the document, swept the corner of his eyes, but inadvertently saw a few big words on the cover.

Since coming to the God of War Palace, the eldest lady of the Chen family, who has become more and more calm and charming, shook violently, stared at the cover of the information, and opened her mouth.

There aren't many words on the cover.

A short line, but like a knife, it was inserted into Chen Qingyu's chest.

"Some Suggestions and Thoughts on the Political Renaming of the Cabinet and the Reorganization of the Six Cabinet Ministries"

Chen Qingyu's palms trembled slightly, and his breathing subconsciously became short.

She could fully imagine how drastic the reaction would be after giving this information to Gao Xiangdong.

The turmoil in the General Staff is not settled.

Cabinet hurricane again!